The following is a list in alphabetical order of title
of kyôgen plays included in standard Japanese collections.
Translations into English as well as French and some other Western
languages are noted. Please refer also to the "kyôgen" section in the
main pmjs translation bibliography. Of related interest: page listing translations of noh plays.

Michael Watson. Last revised 2007.04.22
watson[at]k.meijigakuin.ac.jp

Plays titles are listed below in romanization and in Japanese
characters. Both modern and older kanji forms are given where these
differ. Note is made also to alternative forms of Japanese titles. Many romanized titles could be written as a single word (Bôshibari), hyphenated (Bô-shibari), or as two words (Bô shibari).
In each case I have chosen the form that seems most natural, but give
some alternatives to help in web searches.
This is
followed by the reading in kana to aid in searching, and an abbreviated
reference to one or more modern Japanese editions. References to
Western-language books and articles have also usually been abbreviated. [Japanese references] [Western references]
I will add translations as I learn of them--and would much
appreciate hearing of more. Help is also needed for Japanese
characters for certain titles and for information about published editions. [Acknowledgements][Details needing confirmation.]
Recent changes:
addition of information about plays translated by Keeny (1969),
McKinnon (1968), Noguchi (1916-17) and
Shimoi et al. (1920). Addition of
JSTOR links to journals online.
Many more play titles are
translated in the "Categorical List of Classical Plays" by Don
Kenny (The Kyogen Book, pp. 235-243).

Akagari
あかがり（あかがり） NKBT 42:285

Akubô

"The Priest and the Knave" (title of 1913 trans. cited by Sakanishi 1938).

NBZ = Furukawa Hisashi and Nomuro Kaizô, ed. Kyôgenshû.
3 vols. Nihon bungaku zensho. Asahi Shinbunsha, 1953-1956. *Listed by
vol. number only when play is not included in more modern edition. Full
contents below.

Many translations from the 1880s-1920s appeared in
periodicals that few libraries hold. As anyone interested can find full
details in the backmatter of Sakanishi's The Ink-Smeared Lady
(1938, repr. 1960, 1967), I have noted simply the English (or French)
titles of older translations and their date, giving the name of
translators only in the case of well-known figures like Umeko
Tsuda (founder of Tsuda College, who published some translations in Eigo Seinen, an English-education journal that is still going strong.)

The abbreviation "n.s." means that the editor of this page has not seen
a particular translation. This is true also in all cases where I note
that a translation (or summary) is "...cited by Sakanishi 1938."

Tyler, Pining Wind , 1978 = Tyler, Royall. Pining
Wind. A Cycle of Nô Plays. Ithaca, N.Y.,
1978.
[Matsuyani 松脂, Kaminari 神鳴, Oni-gawara 鬼瓦, Kani yamabushi 蟹山伏]
See also the "kyôgen" section of the main translation bibliography. For other abbreviations--like "MN" for the journal Monumenta Nipponica--see the introductory information to the same bibliography.

For more early translations see Sakanishi, Ink
Smeared Lady, 1938:139-150. For
summaries of the 257 currently performed plays see Don Kenny, A
Guide to Kyôgen (Tokyo: Hinoki Shoten, 1968 [4th
revised
edition 1990]).AcknowledgementsMany thanks to the following correspondents. Joshua Young (Cornell) confirmed that Martin Neumann's 5 Nô, 3 Kyôgen (Vienna: Rhombus, 1995) is not a collection of translations, but rather an orginal avant-garde work in German. Micah Auerback (Princeton) kindly sent details about the 1920 Italian collection by Shimoi et al.
Many thanks to Heekyung Keum (Harvard) for sending me information about Richard McKinnon's Selected Plays of
Kyôgen.
Incomplete entries for which information is needed:
Entries with [kanji] and/or [edition] above are incomplete. Japanese
characters are needed for the following titles not listed in
Hashimoto's "Zenran": Itoma-bukuro,
Kasa no shita, Koyaku-neri, Miyage no kagami, Mizukumi
shinbochi (=Ochanomizu?), Mizu-ron muko, Shika-gari,
Shuyo [Shujyô?], Surigai koto, Susugi-gawa, Tako. Publication information is also needed. The following
were listed by Hashimoto, but are not contained in kyôgen collections checked so
far: Ebisu Daikoku 夷大黒, Fukurô yamabushi 梟山伏 (= Fukurô), Hi no sake
樋の酒, Hôjô no tane 謀生種, Hone-kawa 骨革, Kaki uri 柿売, Keimyô 鶏猫, Koshi
inori 腰祈, Narukami [鳴神], Nukegara 抜殻 , Teoi yamadachi 手負山賊, Tôzumô 唐相撲,
Tsuto yamabushi 苞山伏.

Can anyone identify the Japanese title of the following play?

Noguchi Yone, "The Souls Exchanged," Yôkyokukai 6:8
(Aug. 1917). [Dramatis Personae: the Pilgrim, the Priest and the
Farmer. Plot: Pilgrim from Hyûga arrives in Ise on his way to the
Ise shrine. He takes a nap in a temple. So does a local priest
nicknamed "the Dream-loving priest." When they awake, they find that
their souls have been exchanged...] The Japanese index of the journal
gives the name as Ise monogatari.

It is very helpful when library catalogues list the contents of collections. Waseda's WINE OPAC
is one of the best in this respect. The "NKZ" edition is cited above
only in cases where a play is not available in more modern editions,
but it might be helpful to give here the full list of play titles, as
it includes plays for which an entry has not yet been created.